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BRYANT LAKE BOWL THEATER
Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater is a charming venue in Minneapolis, known for its intimate atmosphere and vibrant programming. With a cozy capacity of just 85 seats, the theater features a 9' x 22' stage that has hosted an impressive array of performances, including the quirky holiday favorite "A Very Die Hard Christmas." The venue also showcases musical talent, featuring renowned artists such as Dan Wilson, The Civil Wars, Jeremy Messersmith, and Soccer Mommy. This blend of theater and live music creates a unique community hub where audiences can enjoy a diverse range of artistic expressions in an inviting setting.
Take a look at our calendar to see what excellent shows we have happening this month.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
HOW DO I BUY TICKETS?
You can purchase tickets from our website using the link under the show’s description.
Any remaining tickets will be available at the door.
Doors typically open 30 or 60 minutes before the show; please check the event page on our website for specific times.
Tickets are available online up until two hours before each show. If the show isn’t sold out we will release the remaining tickets at the door.
I CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE SHOW.
CAN I GET A REFUND?
Sorry, but no.
No refunds or exchanges once you’ve purchased a ticket.
I JUST BOUGHT A TICKET.
DO I HAVE AN ASSIGNED SEAT?
Nope. All of our shows are general admission.
First come, first served.
CAN I EAT AND DRINK INSIDE THE THEATER?
For sure! (Bryant-Lake Bowl food and drinks, that is.)
We serve our full restaurant and bar menus inside the theater, which means you can order from and eat directly in your seat.
I’M INTERESTED IN BOOKING A SHOW.
WHAT DO I DO?
Reach out to Kristin Van Loon at Kristin@bryantlakebowl.com
When visiting Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater, convenient parking options are available to make your experience hassle-free. There’s a parking lot located directly behind the building, offering easy access for guests. Additionally, you'll find free off-street parking nearby, perfect for those looking to save on costs. For those who prefer guaranteed spots, paid off-street parking is also available in the vicinity. With these options, you can focus on enjoying the show without worrying about where to park!
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Improv Zodiac!
Improv Zodiac! is a unique monthly improv show that celebrates each zodiac season. Every month, three curated teams of Twin Cities improvisers—who share astrological placements in that month’s featured sign—come together to deliver hilarious, one-of-a-kind performances. Whether or not you’re interested in astrology, you'll love watching how the stars align on stage!
Improv Zodiac! on Instagram
Steph Callaghan on Instagram
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. $10 at the Door with a Valid Student ID. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Twin Town Live: A Comedy Cabaret
Twin Town Live is the best damn comedy hour around. A whirlwind multi-media variety show with: stand-up, sketch, music, drag, burlesque, magic, clowns, and more.
Hosted and created by Elliot Weber.
Featuring the most talented performers in the Twin Cities and nationally touring acts. Expect nothing - Laugh a lot!
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB featuring Flesh and Felt and Cellar Dwellers
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, THE RESIDENCY AT BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
After the show, stay for Improv Community Time!
FLESH AND FELT
[Jen Scott, Erin Clarkin, Riga Wiitala, zelia Gonzales, Hannah Robb]
Henson trained puppeteer and company of fleshy friends team up to improvise a structured character driven story. In other words, it’s a puppet and people making shit up.
CELLAR DWELLERS
[MaryJo Weishan, Jackson Mizusaki, Zach Lower, Tyler Gwinn, Alex Evans, Zac 2, Arielle, and Lee]
The Cellar Dwellers are a rag-tag group of improvisers who have emerged from the underground to provide a sense of other worldly silliness and wonder in every set!
The Residency at BLB is produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet and Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Holidating: Valentine's Day
An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday!
Do you wish holiday romcoms happened all year?
Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round! Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love, breakups, and meet-cutes themed around this month’s holiday!
Cast:
Will Schroeder
Hannah Wydeven
Laura Berger
Erin Clarkin
Liz Council
Justin Michael
Keys: Brian Allen
Produced by JimJam Media
(Philip Simondet & Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
Ticket are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Friday February 6th
Shorts & Jorts
7pm Show / 6pm Doors
The Shorts: A Variety Show of New Experimental Performance
Bouffon-inspired physical theater, experimental dances about Gratitude and Girlies, an interview with the Universal Publick Friend, and 19th-century drag performances all feature in this rapid-fire variety show of new work by Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp, sn/ophie, Eliana Durnbaugh & Co., Shelby Richardson, and Nat Young.
The Jorts: "GUILLOTINE CITY," A New One-Act Play
Watch your fingers! The blade-like doors of the Minneapolis-St Paul Elevated Rail are razor-sharp, and the masses of swarming, indifferent crows are hungry. Who are you supposed to believe in this city of 44 million people? What kind of revolution wears a mask? And why should I care? "GUILLOTINE CITY" by Marge Jorts Buckley. Directed by Sam Weisberg. Music by Lisa Frank. Starring Erik Abramsen, Sasha Blinnikova, and Allison Young.
PLEASE!
10pm Show / 9:30pm Doors
PLEASE! is a high intensity and humorous trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, exploring the depths of surveillance, desire, power and who holds it. PLEASE! was created in collaborations with Lizz Windnagel, Sam Weisberg, Alice Endo, Davey Steinman, and LIPING VONG, with original music by Lisa Frank.
Felicia Cooper is an artist working in puppetry, performance and embodied research. Her work has been seen at LaMama Theater's Puppet Festival, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Dixon Place, and locally in the Twin Cities. It has been supported by the Tri M Foundation, The National Humanities Center, the Connecticut Sea Grant, the Heinz Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Pennsylvania State Arts Board, and others. She makes work embedded in community and creates platforms for others to create experimental work, including the Puppet Union and her work with the Minnesota Fringe Festival, where she serves as the Director of Audience and Volunteer Engagement. She holds an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut. Go Huskies.
Saturday February 7th
Shorts & Jorts
7pm Show / 6pm Doors
Lisa Frank
10pm Show / 9:30pm Doors
Cam Fassett will open February 7th's late night set with songs from their 2020 album, Turtle Shells, followed by Lisa Frank performing tracks from their debut album to be released later this year. Feat. Patrick Marschke (drums, electronics), Lizz Wind (vocals, creative collaboration), Cam Fassett (bass), and Lisa Harrigan (lead vocals).
Lisa (she/they) is a Minneapolis-based vocalist and digital composer. Melding glittering bedroom pop with understated theatricality, their project, Lisa Frank, explores moody inner worlds through tongue-in-cheek lyricism. Inspired by early 2000s internet culture and suburban brainrot, Lisa Frank carves out a pixelated dreamscape full of hazy synths, plodding basslines, and heartfelt vocals. Listen to Lisa Frank at lisafrankmusic.bandcamp.com. Follow Lisa at @lisafrankmpls. (Artist bio by Minna Zhou)
Sunday February 8th
Movie Brunch
10:30am Show / 10am Doors
Because nothing goes with brunch quite like Orson Welles playing a Nazi war criminal. Selection inspired by the COMMFEST premiere of "GUILLOTINE CITY." Join us for a matinee showing of this excellent and underseen film noir, co-presented with Sloppy Discs Video Rental.
Sloppy Discs is a pop-up video rental in Minneapolis. Created by local film enthusiast and physical media booster, Emmet Kowler, Sloppy Discs is a balm for the broken promises of streaming, bringing back a little IRL magic to watching movies at home. Catch the Sloppy Discs rental table at COMMFEST or find them around town at sloppydiscs.com
Shorts & Jorts
2pm Show / 1pm Doors
COMMFEST is a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST: Shorts & Jorts
FIVE EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE PIECES AND ONE (short) PLAY!
The Shorts: A Variety Show of New Experimental Performance
Bouffon-inspired physical theater, experimental dances about Gratitude and Girlies, an interview with the Universal Publick Friend, and 19th-century drag performances all feature in this rapid-fire variety show of new work by Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp, sn/ophie, Eliana Durnbaugh & Co., Shelby Richardson, and Nat Young.
The Jorts: "GUILLOTINE CITY," A New One-Act Play
Watch your fingers! The blade-like doors of the Minneapolis-St Paul Elevated Rail are razor-sharp, and the masses of swarming, indifferent crows are hungry. Who are you supposed to believe in this city of 44 million people? What kind of revolution wears a mask? And why should I care? "GUILLOTINE CITY" by Marge Jorts Buckley. Directed by Sam Weisberg. Music by Lisa Frank. Starring Erik Abramsen, Sasha Blinnikova, and Allison Young.
Shorts & Jorts is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 10pm on February 6th is PLEASE!, a high intensity and humorous trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, exploring the depths of surveillance, desire, power and who holds it.
COMMFEST: PLEASE!
PUPPETRY, PROJECTION, AND POP MUSIC COMBINE IN FELICIA COOPER’S NEW ADAPTATION OF BUCHNER’S WOYZECK
PLEASE! is a high intensity and humorous trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, exploring the depths of surveillance, desire, power and who holds it. PLEASE! was created in collaborations with Lizz Windnagel, Sam Weisberg, Alice Endo, Davey Steinman, and LIPING VONG, with original music by Lisa Frank.
Felicia Cooper is an artist working in puppetry, performance and embodied research. Her work has been seen at LaMama Theater's Puppet Festival, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Dixon Place, and locally in the Twin Cities. It has been supported by the Tri M Foundation, The National Humanities Center, the Connecticut Sea Grant, the Heinz Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Pennsylvania State Arts Board, and others. She makes work embedded in community and creates platforms for others to create experimental work, including the Puppet Union and her work with the Minnesota Fringe Festival, where she serves as the Director of Audience and Volunteer Engagement. She holds an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut. Go Huskies.
PLEASE! is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 9:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 7pm on February 6th is Shorts & Jorts, five experimental performances and one (short) play.
COMMFEST: Shorts & Jorts
FIVE EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE PIECES AND ONE (short) PLAY!
The Shorts: A Variety Show of New Experimental Performance
Bouffon-inspired physical theater, experimental dances about Gratitude and Girlies, an interview with the Universal Publick Friend, and 19th-century drag performances all feature in this rapid-fire variety show of new work by Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp, sn/ophie, Eliana Durnbaugh & Co., Shelby Richardson, and Nat Young.
The Jorts: "GUILLOTINE CITY," A New One-Act Play
Watch your fingers! The blade-like doors of the Minneapolis-St Paul Elevated Rail are razor-sharp, and the masses of swarming, indifferent crows are hungry. Who are you supposed to believe in this city of 44 million people? What kind of revolution wears a mask? And why should I care? "GUILLOTINE CITY" by Marge Jorts Buckley. Directed by Sam Weisberg. Music by Lisa Frank. Starring Erik Abramsen, Sasha Blinnikova, and Allison Young.
Shorts & Jorts is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 10pm on February 7th is Lisa Frank, an evening of multi-dimensional, cartoon-pop music featuring Cam Fasset and Lisa Frank.
COMMFEST: Lisa Frank
AN EVENING OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, CARTOON-POP MUSIC
Cam Fassett will open February 7th's late night set with songs from their 2020 album, Turtle Shells, followed by Lisa Frank performing tracks from their debut album to be released later this year. Feat. Patrick Marschke (drums, electronics), Lizz Wind (vocals, creative collaboration), Cam Fassett (bass), and Lisa Harrigan (lead vocals).
Lisa (she/they) is a Minneapolis-based vocalist and digital composer. Melding glittering bedroom pop with understated theatricality, their project, Lisa Frank, explores moody inner worlds through tongue-in-cheek lyricism. Inspired by early 2000s internet culture and suburban brainrot, Lisa Frank carves out a pixelated dreamscape full of hazy synths, plodding basslines, and heartfelt vocals. Listen to Lisa Frank at lisafrankmusic.bandcamp.com. Follow Lisa at @lisafrankmpls. (Artist bio by Minna Zhou)
Lisa Frank is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 9:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 7pm on February 7th is Shorts & Jorts, five experimental performances and one (short) play.
COMMFEST: Movie Brunch
Because nothing goes with brunch quite like Orson Welles playing a Nazi war criminal. Selection inspired by the COMMFEST premiere of "GUILLOTINE CITY." Join us for a matinee showing of this excellent and underseen film noir, co-presented with Sloppy Discs Video Rental.
Sloppy Discs is a pop-up video rental in Minneapolis. Created by local film enthusiast and physical media booster, Emmet Kowler, Sloppy Discs is a balm for the broken promises of streaming, bringing back a little IRL magic to watching movies at home. Catch the Sloppy Discs rental table at COMMFEST or find them around town at sloppydiscs.com
Movie Brunch is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $10. Doors open at 10am. Online ticket sales end at 8:30am.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 2pm on February 8th is Shorts & Jorts, five experimental performances and one (short) play.
COMMFEST: Shorts & Jorts
FIVE EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE PIECES AND ONE (short) PLAY!
The Shorts: A Variety Show of New Experimental Performance
Bouffon-inspired physical theater, experimental dances about Gratitude and Girlies, an interview with the Universal Publick Friend, and 19th-century drag performances all feature in this rapid-fire variety show of new work by Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp, sn/ophie, Eliana Durnbaugh & Co., Shelby Richardson, and Nat Young.
The Jorts: "GUILLOTINE CITY," A New One-Act Play
Watch your fingers! The blade-like doors of the Minneapolis-St Paul Elevated Rail are razor-sharp, and the masses of swarming, indifferent crows are hungry. Who are you supposed to believe in this city of 44 million people? What kind of revolution wears a mask? And why should I care? "GUILLOTINE CITY" by Marge Jorts Buckley. Directed by Sam Weisberg. Music by Lisa Frank. Starring Erik Abramsen, Sasha Blinnikova, and Allison Young.
Shorts & Jorts is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 1pm. Online ticket sales end at 12pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 10:30am on February 8th is Movie Brunch, a matinee showing of the excellent and underseen film noir “GUILLOTINE CITY,” co-presented with Sloppy Discs Video Rental.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Movie Fight Club
People got movie opinions, and sometimes those opinions have right hooks.
Come see several of Twin Cities most hilarious cinephiles engage in several rounds of verbal fisticuffs covering a wide-range of movie and pop-culture topics.
Confirming what is over and under-rated! Relitigating guilty pleasures!
Igniting the hot takes!
Featuring:
Kat Perkins
Joey Hamburger
Phoebe Bottoms
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
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The [LOVE] Life of a Showgirl: Ginger Does Gershwin
This Valentine’s weekend, slip into the sparkling world of Mistress Ginger. The Twin Cities’ beloved cabaret queen invites you on a joyful journey through the timeless songs of George and Ira Gershwin – where romance, rhythm, and vintage glamour reign supreme.
With the Franco Holder at the piano, Ginger serves up a night of swoony ballads, infectious rhythms, and playful wit, weaving Gershwin’s melodies together with stories of memory, imagination, and a long-forgotten family legacy. The result is a richly entertaining evening that shimmers with longing, humor, and heart.
Whether you’re a devoted Gershwin fan or simply looking for a glamorous Valentine’s weekend outing, you’ll be swept away by an evening of "'S Wonderful" music, laughter, and showgirl sparkle.
“Mistress Ginger is a cabaret singer who brings warmth and depth to a lyric, and always lets the song shine through. She moves easily from the steam of a torch song to the campy wink of a double entendre – always while holding up the classic composers and lyricists she loves.” –Michael Whistler of Interact Center for the Arts, for MPR News Art Hounds, 2021
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Tickets are $25. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Bring Your Kids!
Bring Your Kids!
A comedy variety show for kids and their grown ups.
Perfect for ages 5 and up.
Featuring comedians, musicians and generalized silliness.
Kids - bring a joke to tell! Grown ups - I hope you like jokes.
More information at bringyourkidscomedy.com
Tickets are $7 for Kids / $12 for Adults. Doors open at 2PM. Online ticket sales end at 1PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The [LOVE] Life of a Showgirl: Ginger Does Gershwin
This Valentine’s weekend, slip into the sparkling world of Mistress Ginger. The Twin Cities’ beloved cabaret queen invites you on a joyful journey through the timeless songs of George and Ira Gershwin – where romance, rhythm, and vintage glamour reign supreme.
With the Franco Holder at the piano, Ginger serves up a night of swoony ballads, infectious rhythms, and playful wit, weaving Gershwin’s melodies together with stories of memory, imagination, and a long-forgotten family legacy. The result is a richly entertaining evening that shimmers with longing, humor, and heart.
Whether you’re a devoted Gershwin fan or simply looking for a glamorous Valentine’s weekend outing, you’ll be swept away by an evening of "'S Wonderful" music, laughter, and showgirl sparkle.
“Mistress Ginger is a cabaret singer who brings warmth and depth to a lyric, and always lets the song shine through. She moves easily from the steam of a torch song to the campy wink of a double entendre – always while holding up the classic composers and lyricists she loves.” –Michael Whistler of Interact Center for the Arts, for MPR News Art Hounds, 2021
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Tickets are $25. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
A Drinking Game Mn presents: The Mummy
Adventure is reborn in this epic that we know as The Mummy!
Join A Drinking Game Mn for our 14th anniversary as our actors do a live stage reading of this adventurous movie. Our actors will have script in hand as they uncover the secret, unlock the legend and unleash the power of the Mummy. Throughout, they will have drinking cues in hand so when they hear their characters name said, a drink they must take! YOU, our audience will also have drinking cues throughout. Hear a bell and take a drink of whatever you like!
Join us, and together we will prepare. Beware. Behold. The might of The Mummy and the magic of 14 years of performing A Drinking Game Mn.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Disaster Is the Best Medicine
All performer proceeds will be donated to Unidos MN
Nothing inspires action quite like a good catastrophe. We’d like to think we use knowledge, wisdom, and a shared sense of humanity,to prepare, but time and time again we do not act until something truly awful happens. And even then, we are often slowed by a bombardment of lies and insincerity. In the climate world (and in almost all other spheres), these bizarre and disturbing forces create an uneven patchwork of readiness and vulnerability.
Climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld is here to help. Join him for a program designed to inform you, prepare you for action, and possibly make you chuckle-weep into your nacho plate. Find out where we stand regarding true climatic extremes, meet someone who takes “fighting climate change” too literally, get a pep talk from a bewildered coach, and learn about action steps for troubled times.
As always, we will have open discussion and Q&A following the show. Come, learn, laugh, and be part of something. May contain a word or words typically not spoken in polite company.
Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Grotesque Fest VI
Do you hear the cracking? The shifting? The unearthing of something that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end? It’s a new collection of films, art, and performance from yours truly! Grotesque Fest is BACK for our Sixth installment and we dove deep for this one. We traveled through dark alleys, to the depths of the waters below, confronted our creative struggles via visual experimentation, and experienced psychic warfare while putting our latest show together for you. Once our TWO NIGHT journey together is over, you’ll never be the same again.
THIS SHOW IS GOING TO START AT 7PM SHARP!!!! So try to get here by 7PM!!! Both Nights are the same show.
FEATURING AN ORIGINAL LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM THE HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL BOO DIOR (Bring your dollar bills - or a willing sacrifice to our beloved Countess)
Featuring the SURREALISTIC ARTISTIC TALENTS of DERIK BOWER!
And of course, the FANTASTIC FILMWORK of Melina Her, Jason Ewert, Payden Bingham, Titus Gustafson, Count Spookula, Lily Berg, Ryan Schadalee, Jack Walterman, and WOLLYMIGHT!
Get here early!!! Doors open at 6PM and we’ll have a merch table available each night!
Poster Art By Lou Thomas
Tickets are $9 in Advance / $13 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Clown Rodeo
Get ready for a wild ride at Clown Rodeo, the game show that's on a quest to find the true clown! Hosted by Minneapolis's own comedian Sarah McPeck and her trusty clown sidekick, Drew, this isn't your average rodeo. Cast includes Kerri O’Halloran, Ethan Martin, Elizabeth Selin, Luis Uz, Mia Diagnosis, and Melancholy.
Two teams, each a powerhouse trio of one drag queen, one improviser, and one stand-up comedian, will battle it out in a series of uproarious challenges. Expect gut-busting comedy challenges, side-splitting physical challenges, and dazzling displays of drag. Plus, test your wits with a hilarious trivia component!
This fast-paced, fun-filled show guarantees an evening of non-stop entertainment and unexpected laughs.
Audience, saddle up! We encourage you to unleash your inner clown or embrace your best western wear. Come dressed in your most fun western or clown attire and join the spectacle!
Produced by Sarah McPeck and Emily LaJoy
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Grotesque Fest VI
Do you hear the cracking? The shifting? The unearthing of something that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end? It’s a new collection of films, art, and performance from yours truly! Grotesque Fest is BACK for our Sixth installment and we dove deep for this one. We traveled through dark alleys, to the depths of the waters below, confronted our creative struggles via visual experimentation, and experienced psychic warfare while putting our latest show together for you. Once our TWO NIGHT journey together is over, you’ll never be the same again.
THIS SHOW IS GOING TO START AT 7PM SHARP!!!! So try to get here by 7PM!!! Both Nights are the same show.
FEATURING AN ORIGINAL LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM THE HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL BOO DIOR (Bring your dollar bills - or a willing sacrifice to our beloved Countess)
Featuring the SURREALISTIC ARTISTIC TALENTS of DERIK BOWER!
And of course, the FANTASTIC FILMWORK of Melina Her, Jason Ewert, Payden Bingham, Titus Gustafson, Count Spookula, Lily Berg, Ryan Schadalee, Jack Walterman, and WOLLYMIGHT!
Get here early!!! Doors open at 6PM and we’ll have a merch table available each night!
Poster Art By Lou Thomas
Tickets are $9 in Advance / $13 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Improv Zodiac!
Improv Zodiac! is a unique monthly improv show that celebrates each zodiac season. Every month, three curated teams of Twin Cities improvisers—who share astrological placements in that month’s featured sign—come together to deliver hilarious, one-of-a-kind performances. Whether or not you’re interested in astrology, you'll love watching how the stars align on stage!
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. $10 at the Door with a Valid Student ID. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Disaster Is the Best Medicine
All performer proceeds will be donated to Unidos MN
Nothing inspires action quite like a good catastrophe. We’d like to think we use knowledge, wisdom, and a shared sense of humanity,to prepare, but time and time again we do not act until something truly awful happens. And even then, we are often slowed by a bombardment of lies and insincerity. In the climate world (and in almost all other spheres), these bizarre and disturbing forces create an uneven patchwork of readiness and vulnerability.
Climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld is here to help. Join him for a program designed to inform you, prepare you for action, and possibly make you chuckle-weep into your nacho plate. Find out where we stand regarding true climatic extremes, meet someone who takes “fighting climate change” too literally, get a pep talk from a bewildered coach, and learn about action steps for troubled times.
As always, we will have open discussion and Q&A following the show. Come, learn, laugh, and be part of something. May contain a word or words typically not spoken in polite company.
Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Disaster Is the Best Medicine
All performer proceeds will be donated to Unidos MN
Nothing inspires action quite like a good catastrophe. We’d like to think we use knowledge, wisdom, and a shared sense of humanity,to prepare, but time and time again we do not act until something truly awful happens. And even then, we are often slowed by a bombardment of lies and insincerity. In the climate world (and in almost all other spheres), these bizarre and disturbing forces create an uneven patchwork of readiness and vulnerability.
Climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld is here to help. Join him for a program designed to inform you, prepare you for action, and possibly make you chuckle-weep into your nacho plate. Find out where we stand regarding true climatic extremes, meet someone who takes “fighting climate change” too literally, get a pep talk from a bewildered coach, and learn about action steps for troubled times.
As always, we will have open discussion and Q&A following the show. Come, learn, laugh, and be part of something. May contain a word or words typically not spoken in polite company.
Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB featuring Flesh and Felt and Cellar Dwellers
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, THE RESIDENCY AT BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
After the show, stay for Improv Community Time!
FLESH AND FELT
[Jen Scott, Erin Clarkin, Riga Wiitala, zelia Gonzales, Hannah Robb]
Henson trained puppeteer and company of fleshy friends team up to improvise a structured character driven story. In other words, it’s a puppet and people making shit up.
CELLAR DWELLERS
[MaryJo Weishan, Jackson Mizusaki, Zach Lower, Tyler Gwinn, Alex Evans, Zac 2, Arielle, and Lee]
The Cellar Dwellers are a rag-tag group of improvisers who have emerged from the underground to provide a sense of other worldly silliness and wonder in every set!
The Residency at BLB is produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet and Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Tubthumping Thursdays
We'll be singing, when we're winning. Join us with a whiskey drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink, or a cider drink, any kind of drink. And enjoy a comedy variety show. Each monthly Thursday show will feature unique comedy from short/long form improv groups, comedians, and/or comedy sketches.
Comedy for the good times, and comedy for the better times.
Tickets are $12. Doors open at 6PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
OCE's World Music Night featuring special guest Meriem
Meriem LeClair comes from the southern deserts of Tunisia—famously known as the filming site for Star Wars’ “Tatooine.” After studying music in Tunisia, her journey brought her to Minnesota, where she found both a new home and a renewed musical path. Blending calm, soulful Tunisian folk songs with Middle Eastern percussion, her music reflects a heritage shaped by centuries of Mediterranean, North African, Greek, and Turkish influences. She also brings beloved French classics into her performances, adding nostalgia and warmth to her set. As an artist living in “ghorba,” she creates community through sound and atmosphere —celebrating culture, connection, and the comfort she has found in Minnesota.
OCE features veteran musicians from the Twin Cities, performing traditional music from the northern Mediterranean region ranging from Spanish Sephardic to Greek and Turkish music, and original compositions inspired by the regions. They weave tales of the history of the music from 711 A.D on and the fusion of sounds that spread through the Mediterranean, as well as the instruments they perform.
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 7pm. Online ticket sales end at 5:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Buffalo Show
The snow doesn't stop the buffalo.
Our first show of the year promises good people, good thought, and good music: Mary Tinucci, Colin Monette, Obsidian James, Ana Munro and Jothsna Harris with Change Narrative, and Savage Buffalo with Strong Buffalo, Joe Savage and Mikkel Beckmen!
Tickets are $8 in Advance / $10 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Leave Room For Jesus
Leave Room for Jesus is an improvised musical parody sermon featuring some of the best comedic improvisers in Minneapolis. Charismatic preacher Marla Hope (Played by Hannah Wydeven) will take you on a spiritual journey to cleanse your filthy sinner soul.
Featuring fully improvised musical numbers with pianist Justin Nellis, and surprise guests (even Jesus himself might might an appearance!).
Night 1:
Love, Honor, and Obey: A Sermon for Godly Couples.
Night 2:
Spiritual Warfare: Becoming a Winner for Jesus.
Whether you grew up a guilty catholic and are craving a bit of shame, or have never been the religious type, this show will finally rid you of the evil living inside you. Join us for some stupid, dirty improv and straight up dumb fun.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Bring Your Kids!
Bring Your Kids!
A comedy variety show for kids and their grown ups.
Perfect for ages 5 and up.
Featuring comedians, musicians and generalized silliness.
Kids - bring a joke to tell! Grown ups - I hope you like jokes.
More information at bringyourkidscomedy.com
Tickets are $7 for Kids / $12 for Adults. Doors open at 2PM. Online ticket sales end at 1PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB featuring Flesh and Felt and Cellar Dwellers
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, THE RESIDENCY AT BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
After the show, stay for Improv Community Time!
FLESH AND FELT
[Jen Scott, Erin Clarkin, Riga Wiitala, zelia Gonzales, Hannah Robb]
Henson trained puppeteer and company of fleshy friends team up to improvise a structured character driven story. In other words, it’s a puppet and people making shit up.
CELLAR DWELLERS
[MaryJo Weishan, Jackson Mizusaki, Zach Lower, Tyler Gwinn, Alex Evans, Zac 2, Arielle, and Lee]
The Cellar Dwellers are a rag-tag group of improvisers who have emerged from the underground to provide a sense of other worldly silliness and wonder in every set!
The Residency at BLB is produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet and Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Leave Room For Jesus
Leave Room for Jesus is an improvised musical parody sermon featuring some of the best comedic improvisers in Minneapolis. Charismatic preacher Marla Hope (Played by Hannah Wydeven) will take you on a spiritual journey to cleanse your filthy sinner soul.
Featuring fully improvised musical numbers with pianist Justin Nellis, and surprise guests (even Jesus himself might might an appearance!).
Night 1:
Love, Honor, and Obey: A Sermon for Godly Couples.
Night 2:
Spiritual Warfare: Becoming a Winner for Jesus.
Whether you grew up a guilty catholic and are craving a bit of shame, or have never been the religious type, this show will finally rid you of the evil living inside you. Join us for some stupid, dirty improv and straight up dumb fun.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Cellular Cinema: An Experimental Film Showcase
*THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELED*
Dear Cellular Cinema community,
Thank you so much for purchasing an advance ticket to the screening! After a lot of discussion, we decided it didn't feel appropriate to gather tonight for a celebration of experimental film, with all of the struggle and unrest going on right in the heart of South Minneapolis.
We believe in the necessity of coming together as a community to experience beautiful and challenging art in times like these, but it just felt a little too close and too soon to be able to give the artists and their work the focus and energy they deserve.
So, we are planning to reschedule the screening for a date in the near future - we will keep you posted about it, and we hope to see you there!
Stay safe and take care,
-Kevin Obsatz and Jules Pivec
Cellular Cinema is an artist-run experimental film showcase for contemporary films you might not find in traditional theaters. From the absurd to the existential, Cellular Cinema is home to any moving image art that is strange, risky or difficult to categorize.
Come early and check out art for sale by local artists!
Tickets are $10. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
OASIS Laugh Battle at Bryant Lake Bowl
No scripts. No mercy. Just chaos, courage, and comedy.
The Twin Cities' fiercest BIPOC comedians face off in the rawest, rowdiest comedy show in the Twin Cities.
Every round, performers battle it out in lightning-fast improv games—and the audience calls the shots. You decide who stays, who slays, and who gets eliminated.
🔥 Come for the battle. Stay for the laughs.
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Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Holidating: Technology Day
An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday!
Do you wish holiday romcoms happened all year?
Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round! Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love, breakups, and meet-cutes themed around this month’s holiday!
Cast:
Phillip Schramm
Erin Clarkin
Laura Berger
Justin Michael
Christian Unser
Chris Rodriquez
Keys: Carl Olson
Produced by JimJam Media
(Philip Simondet & Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour
A live reading series featuring original science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction, and one musician underscores the readings with complementary auditory landscapes. We focus on Science Fiction so that we as a society are consciously building our futures, to see and talk about ourselves and each other in new ways- to see people of color, women, queer folks, and immigrants in the future- to show all of us in positions of power, and to show different ways of leading, etc. Science fiction examines not only the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also envisions new ways of doing things (and remembers ancient ways of doing and being in the future).
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Martin Law is a Minneapolis-based musician and scholar. Over the past three decades he has contributed sounds to a variety of projects for film, radio, podcasts, art installations, live performances, psychoacoustic research, and, by the end of the night, for an esteemed local SciFi Reading Hour. Martin owes his academic career to Yanni (yes, THAT Yanni), to Jodi, and to accidentally insulting his boss's taste in music that one time--- an incident which can be recounted only in the form of a shaggy dog story. He has taught courses on speech, rhetoric, ethics, and cultural studies at colleges and universities across the country. His current scholarship on Blackness and disability highlights the power of fugitive speech to rescue radical futures.
Patrick Harrigan is the author of the novel Lost Clusters (2005), and the short story collections Thin Times and Thin Places (2012), The Lecture Tour (2019) and On Tour Forever (2022). He is the co-editor of several MIT Press books concerning games and new media: Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming (2016), with Matthew Kirschenbaum; and the series First Person, Second Person and Third Person (2004-2009), with Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Other work of his has been published with Camden House, Fantasy Flight Games, Chaosium, Arc Dream Publishing, Gameplaywright, and ETC Press. His series of horror microfictions, “The Sunday Scaries,” appears weekly at Ghoulishdelights.com. He lives in Minneapolis.
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
A Drinking Game Mn presents Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
We’re stepping into the New Year with a movie so packed with adventure, the game has evolved.
Join us on 1.3 for A Drinking Game Mn, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle! Our cast will bring this story to life with all the action, humor and wild animals that you can imagine! What we’ll discover is that we can’t just play the game, we have to survive it by doing a live stage reading of the movie, all the while taking drinking cues through out to turn this show into a chaotic good time! You, our audience will also have drinking cues! Hear a bell, take a drink of whatever you like! To beat the game and return to the real world, sip don’t chug!
Join us as we start off the new year with a wild adventure!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB featuring Flesh and Felt and Cellar Dwellers
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, THE RESIDENCY AT BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
After the show, stay for Improv Community Time!
FLESH AND FELT
[Jen Scott, Erin Clarkin, Riga Wiitala, zelia Gonzales, Hannah Robb]
Henson trained puppeteer and company of fleshy friends team up to improvise a structured character driven story. In other words, it’s a puppet and people making shit up.
CELLAR DWELLERS
[MaryJo Weishan, Jackson Mizusaki, Zach Lower, Tyler Gwinn, Alex Evans, Zac 2, Arielle, and Lee]
The Cellar Dwellers are a rag-tag group of improvisers who have emerged from the underground to provide a sense of other worldly silliness and wonder in every set!
The Residency at BLB is produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet and Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Monster Science First Thursdays: The Trial of Star Wars
Ring in the New Year with Star Wars! You love it! Or you hate it! Or most likely it’s both!
Examine the decades-long history of the Star Wars Wars, with childhoods destroyed, fandoms turning on themselves, and generally inexplicably hostile behavior inspired by some movies about space wizards!
Join Reverend Matt and Twin Cities Theater golden boy Michael Rogers (who both actually like most of Star Wars quite a lot, actually, but who have controversial opinions nevertheless, that they’re somehow not all mad about) as they unravel what is great about Star Wars and what went wrong with its fans! Plus jokes and monsters and PowerPoint!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
an alleged Holiday Special
This show is cancelled due to inclement weather
an alleged Theatre Company returns to Bryant-Lake Bowl this winter with their fourth annual ‘an alleged Holiday Special.’
The company of an alleged Theatre Company has learned that their dear friend, Santa Claus, has passed away. With Mrs. Claus in grieving, our heroes must find a way to bring Santa Claus from the dead, to save Christmas once again. Who can help them? Of course… Baby New Year.
This variety show will contain improv, sketch comedy, live music, and insane lore. Come one, come all, and help an alleged Theatre Company celebrate the holidays, and BRING BACK SANTA CLAUS!!!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
an alleged Holiday Special
an alleged Theatre Company returns to Bryant-Lake Bowl this winter with their fourth annual ‘an alleged Holiday Special.’
The company of an alleged Theatre Company has learned that their dear friend, Santa Claus, has passed away. With Mrs. Claus in grieving, our heroes must find a way to bring Santa Claus from the dead, to save Christmas once again. Who can help them? Of course… Baby New Year.
This variety show will contain improv, sketch comedy, live music, and insane lore. Come one, come all, and help an alleged Theatre Company celebrate the holidays, and BRING BACK SANTA CLAUS!!!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
White Elephant Comedy Show
Comedians and Minnesota natives Anders Lee and Joe Cocozzello host the Twin Cities’ favorite annual holiday comedy show!
Featuring performers local and beyond, White Elephant is always an uproarious way to ring in that wonderful, slovenly week between Christmas and New Year’s.
Featuring:
Devohn Bland
Arman Shah
Nicky Kendall
Elizabeth Selin
Joey Phiefer
Karen Pickering
Hosted by Anders Lee & Joe Cocozzello
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 5PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
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Tickets are $22 in Advance / $25 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 in Advance / $25 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
To Balance the Extremes: A Winter Solstice Ritual
Norwegian and Finnish traditional songs, dances, and rituals keep Winter Spirits from overtaking us. Grief, darkness, and depression are balanced with joy, clarity, and engagement. A Nordic balance of extremes for Winter Solstice.
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Kari Tauring and friends present an interactive ritual performance, a tradition at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. Music, movement, and poetry make for a compelling and interactive journey into darkness in order to find the light.
Winter in the Northlands always holds uncertainty. Below freezing temperatures and almost no sunlight create the need for community connection alongside the desire to isolate and sleep. Cold and dark come to us still. We have no more control than our ancestors did, though possibly better odds for survival in these modern times.
Some years are harder than others, and we have had a string of hard ones. This year there is an extra layer of grief and fear as we see human rights dissolve and friends and neighbors targeted for persecution. What did our ancestors do in the bleakest of times? What does it mean to balance with extremes?
Gathering in community is the most ancient way to hold one another as we learn to embrace the dark and cold without letting our light inside go out. Ancient runes for Ice, Need Fire, and Community hold these lessons. We explore them in breath and stretching. Traditional songs and dances hold ritual actions to appease these winter spirits. We sing and dance together to embody their wisdom. In darkness we hear the runos, the poems, the poets, who help us make meaning of things. The smell of evergreen lifts our spirits. We eat and drink and make toasts., remembering those who have passed, celebrating us here and now, summoning the joy of jultide to carry us through.
Kari Tauring and Carol Sersland share their Norwegian traditions in song and dance. Jack Tauring-Traxler and Cheré Suzette Bergeron bring musical texture to the dark night. Lynette Reini-Grandell and Morrey Nellis carry on the ancient tradition of Finnish poetry with wisdom words for today.
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Tickets are $12 in Advance / $14 at the Door. Doors open at 2pm. Online ticket sales end at 1pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
PEEPHOLE'S TRIPLE D: A Non-Denominational Die-Hard December Show
From the cast that brought you DAVID LYNCH DRAG SHOW and GRINDHAUS, comes a very special holiday program dedicated to ending the war on Christmas . . .
PEEPHOLE! presents: TRIPLE D A Non-Denominational Die-Hard December Show . . . paying tribute to all your favorite films that take place in the month of December . . .
Featuring the talents of the PEEPHOLE! cast and a few incredible guests from around the Twin Cities. Join us to celebrate the joyous birth of Christ and also the Gremlins from the movie Gremlins. Bring your dollars to tip the divas, and to patronize the beautiful Bryant Lake Bowl. Dressing up is highly encouraged but not required. THEMED COSTUME CONTEST AT INTERMISSION!
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $5 - $15 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 9:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 8pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 in Advance / $25 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.